Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
Nnedi Okorafor
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
Barbara Mandrell
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
Harold Evans
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Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
Ramana Maharshi
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
Sadie Jones
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
Adam Cohen
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
Patricia Polacco
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Michelangelo
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
Northrop Frye
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
AJ McLean
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
Albert Camus
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Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
Nnedi Okorafor
